The Children of Hurin - The Film

[tumhalad2]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

tumhalad, I've already said all I intend to say about CoH and your notions on the interpretation thereof on the "Turin the Hopeless" thread, so I will not repeat myself here. But I'd like a clarification: in what way do you mean the book "begs questions" about its author? Is that even possible? A review or analysis might do this, but surely not the book itself.

Or do you mean it raises questions? Not the same thing.

To my mind, "begs" and "raises" really means the same thing. I don't appreciate the difference. When I write that the book "begs" the question, I mean that when I first read it, I began to engage with it and ask questions of it, and by extension its author. I hope that clears that up. Reviews and analyses are presumably written by people who have read the book, so they ask questions during and after the process of reading. This seems to me like a completely natural and straightforward process.